| Give me a museum, and I'll fill it. |
| The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. |
| Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
| Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock. |
| I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. |
| Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. |
| Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
| Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. |
| Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. |
| Everything you can imagine is real. |
| Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
| I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. |
| Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. |
| When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. |
| Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. |
| Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. |
| Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. |
| There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. |
| Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. |
| It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. |
| There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. |
